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Varonis announced an integration with the Claude Compliance API, bringing Claude Enterprise and Claude Platform activity into its Atlas AI Security Platform. The integration enables security and governance teams to monit…
Google announced a major Search revamp at its I/O developer conference, introducing an AI-first interface that summarizes web content instead of displaying links. This shift threatens the online information economy by re…
OpenAI announced three major initiatives in five days, including a partnership with Plaid to connect ChatGPT to over 12,000 financial institutions, multi-year enterprise compute contracts, and a program providing $1 mill…
Researchers at the University of Waikato have developed a text-to-speech system for a specific dialect of te reo Māori, built on the principle that the synthetic voice and all data used to create it must remain owned by …
The U.S. General Services Administration announced a new OneGov agreement for the Snowflake AI Data Cloud, offering federal agencies up to 50% reduced consumption costs on compute through pre-negotiated pricing. The part…
A recent essay by Derek Thompson argues that AI's emergent capabilities and potential for cyber and bio risks justify "extraordinary" government intervention, including restrictions on AI company releases, despite agreei…
Common Sense Media launched its Youth AI Safety Institute on May 5, backed by a new initiative to address artificial intelligence risks for children. The nonprofit, known for technology recommendations for families, appo…
A new database from Equitable Growth synthesizes research on AI's impact on work, finding that effects are difficult to measure and will depend on the balance of benefits and harms across tasks, skills, and time. Experts…
On 20 May 2026, GitHub confirmed that approximately 3,800 internal repositories were exfiltrated after an employee installed a poisoned code editor extension that handed attackers credentials and cloud keys. The breach e…
Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya, and South Africa have each drafted AI strategies since January 2025 that identify dependence on U.S. tech companies like Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Meta as a security threat, pushing for greate…
Diciannove organizzazioni, tra cui Mozilla, The Tor Project, Proton, Mullvad VPN, ExpressVPN, IPVanish, Internet Society e EFF, hanno firmato una lettera aperta il 5 maggio 2026 rifiutandosi di implementare tecnologie di…
Financial AI initiatives often stall due to poor data foundations, not model flaws, according to experts Dr. Efi Pylarinou and Mike Sisk. Over 40% of financial firms still use spreadsheets, and fragmented data prevents r…
Between 2024 and 2026, multiple major polls from Gallup, Pew Research Center, and other organizations show Americans have turned sharply against AI, with 71% opposing local data center construction and bipartisan concern…
OpenAI is reportedly preparing for an initial public offering as early as September, just one day after Elon Musk lost a lawsuit that threatened the company's corporate structure and future plans. The Wall Street Journal…
Varonis announced its integration with AWS Security Hub Extended to provide unified, data-centric security across SaaS, multi-cloud, and hybrid environments. The partnership enables security teams to correlate sensitive …
The Ninth Circuit's ruling in Bride v. YOLO, which carved out an exception to Section 230 for promise-based claims, has led to a district court struggling to process an unopposed default judgment because the underlying c…
A vulnerability in Kubeflow versions prior to 1.10 allows attackers with Contributor or kubeflow-edit roles to steal authorization tokens via overly permissive Istio permissions, enabling account takeover and data access…
A new analysis argues that the era of AI scaling producing clearly better models is ending, with frontier labs facing exponentially increasing costs for linear returns. The author claims that the internet has been fully …
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman predicted on May 17, 2026 that AI will automate most white-collar work within 18 months, despite repeated similar forecasts since 2023 failing to materialize. No significant white-coll…
Google senior vice president James Manyika is betting that predictions of mass job losses from artificial intelligence are overblown, arguing that automation will unfold more slowly than some tech leaders claim. Manyika,…